Electric vs Gas
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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

    • AlotOfReading@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Just did a quick eBay check. The cheapest 350hp ICE I could find was a rebuilt $3,000 Chevy engine. A new one is more like $6-8k. An equally powerful, brand new Siemens motor was $1,500.

      This makes sense when you think about it though. An electric motor is basically just steel with a bunch of coiled wire with some control electronics. An ICE is hundreds of pounds of precision cast and machined metal. The cost driver in electric vehicles is not the motor, it’s the batteries.

    • kono_throwaway_da@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The price of electric cars are rapidly falling down to ICE levels in many parts of the world tho

      I live in Malaysia a third world country and recently there is a noticeable growth in EV sales over here

      • Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        I hope they keep falling here in the US as well. Right now they’re pretty much all as expensive as more luxurious cars, and the ones that are affordable kinda suck.

        • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          one of the major reasons is that new cheap evs cant compete with used premium ones, hence the desire to develop a cheap EV, at least in the states, is economically prohibitive.

          basically because of how picky people are, especially with budget cars, the risk of devlopment on them are extremely high. Make the wrong cut and youre suddenly a bankrupt company